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ADELIA HONER STORMS, OF BARNEGAT, NElV JERSEY.

STEAMER AND BOILER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,793, dated July 9, 1889.

Application filed July 3, 1888. Serial No. 278,918. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADELIA HONER STORMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barnegat, in the county of Ocean and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Steamers and Boilers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a steamer and boiler designed to prepare food; and it consists in a certain novel construction and combination of devices, fully set forth hereinafter, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to simplify and improve steamers, whereby less Water will be necessary, thus enabling the boilingpoint to be more quickly reached, whereby the cooking may be more quickly accomplished.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of the boiler, showing the perforated receiver-ring in side view. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the receiver in section. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the cover of the boiler. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the supporting-ring. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the receiver. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the partition.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the boiler, of any ordinary shape, preferably cylindrical, which is provided with the cover B, having a slot or opening I) at its center for a purpose to be explained; and C designates a plate, which is pivoted to the under side of the cover adjacent to this slot, and is adapted to be employed to close the same when the boiler is used for the ordinary purposes of a boiler.

D represents a receiver or steamer provided with perforated sides and bottom, in which is adapted to be placed the food to be steamed,

ceiver is rigidly afiixed the lower end of the vertical handle E, which is flat and projects through the slot in the cover of the boiler, thereby preventing the steamer from rotating or from lateral play within said boiler.

F represents a perforated partition, which is adapted to be arranged transversely across the center of the receiver, to divide it into two compartments, and thus enable two articles of different kinds tov be steamed at the same time, and the ends of the said partition are provided withears or hooks e e, which engage over the upper edge of the receiver and support thelower edge of the partition slightly above the bottom of the receiver, as shown in the figures. The upper ends of these cars touch or nearly touch the bottom of the cover, whereby, when the strainer is lifted by its handle E to remove it from the boiler, the cover C will be removed therewith, as it is held in place by the handle engaging the slot 1) in the cover. The outer sides of these cars bear against the dependinginternal flanges c of the cover, as shown, thereby not only holding the latter in place for removal, as above described, but also holding the steamer concentric within the cover, and thereby within the boiler, and preventing said steamer from lateral play, which would throw its sides into contact with those of the boiler and prevent the proper cooking of the food near such sides. The steamer is thus locked vertically to the cover by the upper edge of its sides and laterally thereto by the ears of the partition, or, when that is not used, by handle E, and through said cover it is locked concentrically within the boiler.

The receiver is supported on a ring G, which rests on the bottom of the boiler, small vertical tubes 9 g being attached within the ring to increase the bearing thereof and also en- .able the receiver to rest more steadily thereon.

The bottom of the receiver is thus supported a short distance above the bottom of the boiler, and this space only is filled with water, and the sides of the receiver are slightly removed from the sides of the boiler to allow a small intervening annular space H.

The operation of the improved steamer will be readily understood. The water being placed in the bottom of the boiler suflicient to almost cover the supporting-ring, the food is placed in the receiver and the lid or cover is arranged on the top of the boiler. The steam, as it generates, entirely surrounds the receiver and passes through the same, so as to come in close contact with its contents.

When the device is to be used as an ordinary boiler, the slot in the cover is closed by the pivoted plate, and the supporting-ring and receiver are removed.

This steamer, it will be observed, is simple,

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The advantage of the improved support is I that the vertical tubes enable a smaller receiver to be placed thereon without the risk of being tilted, and at the same time only a very limited portion of the bottom is covered, thereby not interfering with the passage of the steam through the perforations. The lower ends of the tubes bear on the bottom of the boiler, thereby conveying the weight of the receiver and its contents directly to the bottom of the boiler, and the heat of the fire is passed directly upward within these tubes and directed against and through the bottom of the steamer. The remaining heat and steam on the exterior of the tubes and within the ring is free to pass upwardly through the bottom of the steamer; or, if the latter be small, it may pass around on all sides thereof.

Having described my invention, I claiml. The combination, with the cylindrical boiler and a suitable cover therefor, of the removable steamer arranged within said boiler and smaller in diameter than the diameter of the depending flange of the cover, whereby an annular space is formed between them, and the partition F within said steamer, said. partition having ears 6 e, engaging the upper edge of the steamer and passing thereover into said annular space, which ears si multaneously support the partition vertically and hold the steamer concentric with said cover, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the cylindrical boiler, the cover B therefor, said cover having a slot in its body, and the plate C, pivoted to the cover and adapted to close said slot, of the cylindrical steamer D, removably inserted within said boiler, the body of the boiler being larger in diameter than that of the steamer, and the vertical sides of the latter extending upwardly nearly to the cover, for the purpose set forth, and the flat handle E, rigidly secured to the interior of the steamer and projecting upwardly through said slot in the cover, and with the removable partition F within said strainer, said partition having ears 6 e, engaging its upper edge, passing thereover, and fitting between the outside of the strainer and the inside of the depending flange c of the cover. as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADELIA IIONER STORMS.

Witnesses:

HORACE G. ERRICKSON, R. M. CoLLINs. 

